In Chaucer's work, The Canterbury Tales (one of the greatest epic works of world literature), gender issues are also moral questions. There is a theory created by Frederick Tupper in 1914 that the Canterbury Tales were intended as exemplars of sin and virtue, with each tale drawing on one of the "strict categories" of traditional moral analysis. (Blamires) It's very interesting because we are in the Middle Ages where religion was very important. I argue that this is both a kind of ethical teaching and Christian morality. In this essay I will focus on the representation of gender roles, sexuality, hidden feminism, the importance of marriage and virginity in the Middle Ages. The “Prologue to the Wife of Bath” raises the question of marriage. Marriage and the role of the wife occupied an important place in the Middle Ages. It embodies many patriarchal values ​​that create a full-fledged medieval culture and society. Lee Patterson argues that some historicist readings of Wife of Bath view medieval marriage as a wholly inhumane system, "organized by men to serve economic and political purposes, with the woman treated as a useful and productive appendage to land or property." exchanged”. » (Beidle 138) This reading means that marriage is no longer as important, sacred and precious as people think in this era. It destroys society, diminishes privacy and highlights the importance of property and wealth in the Middle Ages. The woman talks about her memories of the past. She expresses nostalgia with her words. She says she has five husbands, three of them were old but rich and the other two are younger. On the one hand, the three older husbands provided her with a strong financial...... middle of paper ......this Center. Internet. April 19, 2011. Shoeck, Taylor. ed. Criticism of Chaucer. An analogy. Vol I. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1960 Thiebaux, Marcelle. “Gender and Romance in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.” The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 95.2 (1996): 225+. Literary Resource Center. Internet. April 19, 2011. Williams, David. "Redeemed Language: 'The Tale of the Wife of Bath'." “The Canterbury Tales”: A literary pilgrimage. Twayne Publishers, 1987. 53-100. Rep. in poetry for students. Ed. Anne-Marie Hacht. Flight. 14. Detroit: Gale Group, 2002. Information Resource Center. Internet. April 19. 2011.